BLOG ARCHIVE FOR October 2017

Eyeless women, horrifying rituals and Jack the Ripper: the Hodderscape team have our Halloween reading list sorted. Now all we need is candlelight, an atmospheric storm and a few bumps in the night when we’re home alone.

When we heard that Becky Chambers was writing a new book set in the world of the Wayfarers we were over the moon. When we read the blurb and heard that one of the main characters was an alien academic (squee!) we were way over the moon and somewhere near Jupiter. Then we read this extract and we shot into a whole other galaxy entirely.

If I am loving a submission then I immediately start thinking about how to pull together a vision for a pitch for it – especially when a hot book like Suicide Club comes in. We won over Rachel, the author, with our pitch document that featured a version of the coffin-heart motif and some neon-inspired type, and I felt like that was a good starting point for thinking about the cover.